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'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Yukinobu Tajima (L), head of the Fragrance Marketing Association, and Makoto Imai, assistant professor of Shiga University of Medical Science, speak with reporters at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Sept. 29, 2011 shortly before attending the award ceremony there for the 2011 Ig Nobel prizes. Seven Japanese researchers including Tajima and Imai were awarded the prize in chemistry for inventing a fire alarm device which informs people with hearing impediments of a fire by emitting a pungent ''wasabi'' horseradish smell.

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'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Yukinobu Tajima, head of the Fragrance Marketing Association, in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, in April 2009 holding a fire alarm device that informs people with hearing impediments of a fire by emitting a pungent ''wasabi'' horseradish smell. Tajima, together with six other Japanese researchers, were awarded the 2011 Ig Nobel prize in chemistry at the award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 29, 2011, for inventing the device.

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meet skewer, pork, onion, bacon, roasted vegetables

Pork skewers with roasted vegetables and Horseradish sauce. (CTK Photo/Zdenek Rerych)

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'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Yukinobu Tajima (L), head of the Fragrance Marketing Association, and Makoto Imai, assistant professor of Shiga University of Medical Science, speak with reporters at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Sept. 29, 2011 shortly before attending the award ceremony there for the 2011 Ig Nobel prizes. Seven Japanese researchers including Tajima and Imai were awarded the prize in chemistry for inventing a fire alarm device which informs people with hearing impediments of a fire by emitting a pungent ''wasabi'' horseradish smell. (Kyodo)

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'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Yukinobu Tajima, head of the Fragrance Marketing Association, in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, in April 2009 holding a fire alarm device that informs people with hearing impediments of a fire by emitting a pungent ''wasabi'' horseradish smell. Tajima, together with six other Japanese researchers, were awarded the 2011 Ig Nobel prize in chemistry at the award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 29, 2011, for inventing the device. (Kyodo)

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meet skewer, pork, onion, bacon, roasted vegetables

Pork skewers with roasted vegetables and Horseradish sauce. (CTK Photo/Zdenek Rerych)

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meet skewer, pork, onion, bacon, roasted vegetables

Pork skewers with roasted vegetables and Horseradish sauce. (CTK Photo/Zdenek Rerych)

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meet skewer, pork, onion, bacon, roasted vegetables

Pork skewers with roasted vegetables and Horseradish sauce. (CTK Photo/Zdenek Rerych)

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meet skewer, pork, onion, bacon, roasted vegetables

Pork skewers with roasted vegetables and Horseradish sauce. (CTK Photo/Zdenek Rerych)

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meet skewer, pork, onion, bacon, roasted vegetables

Pork skewers with roasted vegetables and Horseradish sauce. (CTK Photo/Zdenek Rerych)

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meet skewer, pork, onion, bacon, roasted vegetables

Pork skewers with roasted vegetables and Horseradish sauce. (CTK Photo/Zdenek Rerych)